Comments on: Chilean Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010 / Sabbagh Arquitectos

By: Chile Pavilion EXPO 2010 by Sabbagh Arquitectos

Chile Pavilion EXPO 2010 by Sabbagh Arquitectos — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:00:02 +0000

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By: alex

alex — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:57:01 +0000

Hi everyone, I am a Chilean architect working in China for a while and I visited the expo several times and checked most of the pavilions (Puxi and Pudong side). It’s curious but when I was at the Chilean pavilion and spoke with the staff they always said that the most annoying and fussy visitors were Chileans, why??? To tell you more, when I was there a Universidad del Desarrollo delegation of architects was visiting and I spotted 3 women complaining at the bar against a plastic bag stacked in the ceiling and a wine stain on the floor, they yielded to a Chilean host, at the end they were so mad that they left taking pictures of unreliable details to send them to EL MERCURIO newspaper. I just stared this people with no comments. Meanwhile the foreigners and Chinese fellows were so impressed that Chile was able to bring such a good pavilion counting that we are a small country in the bottom of the world, they probably understood the context and from where we are coming from or they probably knew much better than us that we have limitations. I am agree that wasn’t well built, and had some flaws in the design but anybody of u guys checked the other pavilions, how were they built, contents, design, and how much money they spent in many of them. If it’s make you happy we were much better than a lot of European countries (by content and design), much better than USA and much better than ALL of the America pavilions, en hora Buena.
well before criticize get informed and second this is an EXPO and we must understand that a pavilion host people just for a few minutes and they don’t pay much attention to the small things, they are focused on other things like “stamping a passport”, specially when they have been waiting on the line for 1 or 4 fours and you have 200 hundred people next to you, its a venue for a big show.

I don’t want this become into a vanish discussion about Chileans but…. hey Chileans enjoy things as they are, enjoy life and enjoy the things (small and big ones) that we can do, and I know we are far away of doing things REALLY WELL DONE but let’s give a good try for good things. Architecture, sports, art, scientist, etc they all need the good support from us.

By: Thomas Cruz

Thomas Cruz — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:34:25 +0000

The pavilion interior is nice compare to other pavilion but the exterior is very ugly and seem to be unfinished.
The floor have alot of holes and is discolouring. All the material use seem to be very cheap and from the wall outside to the wooden floor that seem to be cracking and discolouring.
The content and message seem to be lost in translation because my entire tour of 40 people do not seem to understand what message they want to deliver. Overall i would give 2/10 points.
I seriously think we chilean can do better than this and since we have pay so much for this project.

By: suyun

suyun — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:26:02 +0000

I saw this and went in myself twice. It is a good architectural piece, in terms of space and the use of materials. It is not an architecture that can be appreciated by just looking at the facade, the space inside creates anticipation. I like it very much, and I am not a Chilean, but I am an architect.

By: Carolina Soto Asenjo

Carolina Soto Asenjo — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:28:37 +0000

http://www.archdaily.com/21172/chilean-pavilion-for-shanghai-expo-2010-sabbagh-arquitectos/ Pabellón de Chile en Shangai

By: AD Round Up: Shanghai Pavillions Part II – ConstructionArts News & Information Network

Tue, 04 May 2010 10:48:53 +0000

[...] Chile Pavillion chilean government presented the design for the Chilean Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. The 2000sqm pavilion, named “Sprout of a New City” was designed by Sabbagh Arquitectos. This was the first Latin American country to sign their participation on the Expo with their own pavilion. The government emphasized that this pavilion will strength the relation between both countries (read more…) [...]

By: Andrés Carvajal

Andrés Carvajal — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:51:13 +0000

Quiero leer la opinión del edificio, no creo que en esto sea relevante la capacidad creativa o si se hizo una votación para elegir al arquitecto de este proyecto……Como decimos en Chile, la gente que nivela hacia abajo, al basurero.

Afectuosamente.

By: TM

TM — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:05:56 +0000

I started reading the posts for every pavilion and got really mad!!

Seriuosly, I hated my country´s pavilion (Brazil) and wanted to see what people had to say about it. Most of the comments were ok regarding bad quality (except a dumbass who said that the wood for the pavilion came from the forests WE cut clear, not knowing that the main explorers of the rain forest are indeed foreing companies), but after reading the posts for the other projects I got to the conclusion that people lost focus on each country´s proposal and regardless of its meaning and not even knowing at all the country they are talking about started criticizing every project and saying that people should be ashamed of their contry´s architecture.
I guess everybody is so f… good that could elaborate proposals to synthetize every country´s simbolism, culture and natural features with a architectural element better than the any other architect.

I understand bad designs deserve criticism to enhance architectural quality, but in my opimion people are over reacting and badly judging everything wihtout further considerations, it becomes silly and pointless to give any opimiom at all whe based on that kind of approach.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:26:07 +0000

beautiful. i dont see what everyones problem is!

not every single piece of architecture needs to be excessive!
not every single piece needs to reflect vernacular when we live in a global world, where people work in other nations.

beautiful material use. love the channel glass

By: julio

julio — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:19:09 +0000

I’ve seen other stuff of Sabbagh and I don´t understand what it seems to be happen here, it’s so different from the line of what they usually do. I think our pavillion in China, should be at the top of others, like in Sevilla when we took the iceberg there; I do really like Sabbagh but i think in this project, he just gave an stadart typical glass “curved” box with grass on the roof….. boring… nothing in timber or our beautiful sismic structures… I just don’t get it.
Probably they have a lot of work , and this one it’s just a product of a quaterpound cheese with a light coke….

By: Andres

Andres — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:58:26 +0000

shame to me as a chilean…….i´m sure we can do better, originals and creative projects

By: Patricio Paredes

Patricio Paredes — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:01:43 +0000

what a shame!!!?: http://tinyurl.com/dz3g6v

By: Giuliano

Giuliano — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:47:42 +0000

@none
do you think that “competent adaptation of what is going on” is a fake?

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:56:05 +0000

horrible ..!

Like a corporation headquarter.
So ugly and conservative arch !

By: patricio becar

patricio becar — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:25:16 +0000

Marvelous…Nice facade and shapes…Congratulations

The question is:

Where is Chile in this pavilion?

Is this pavilion useful to show the best of the country?

I trust in our Architect.
I hope a great presentation with this building for Chile in China.
Regards

By: João

João — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:59:52 +0000

ok, I have to agree with most of the critics, chilean architecture has much more to show us, but let’s say it’s a way much better than many of the pavillions we have seen here… that rabbit one???!!! come on guys, stop having any strange tea before designing anything…

By: Gonzalo Raineri

Gonzalo Raineri — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:30:01 +0000

Who decided this whas the proper pavillion to represent Chile?

As far as I know there was no open call to present proyects, so it was more of a closed designation. This means no questioning or open debate was generated to find out how the pavillion should be. I’m sure the “Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile” has something to say about this. In the past a Museum in Valparaiso by Oscar Niemeyer was stopped and an open contest was done. Let’s hope this happens again.

In relation to the arquitecture itself shown here, it has to do more with a showoff of the arquitects, rather than an exhibition of the country.

By: jae

jae — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:17:05 +0000

what a shame, it looks like the lobby of a shopping centre

By: omg

omg — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:53:40 +0000

I must say this is quite boring…
even the exhibition spaces created in 2000 for the millenium Dome is a thousand times more interesting…

a degrade of creativity even with the advance technology media??

i think the architects should design with Head than base of the recent software

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 03 May 2009 07:55:09 +0000

Not bad at all